Texas school police ticketing students as young as 6

[Bones]

This country has officially lost its goddamn mind. Lose your patriotic boners and sober up, kids. It's done. Last call. It's over. Fin.

America is beyond repair. Socially, economically, intellectually and emotionally.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelo...d-by-police-in-texas-schools#mwpphu-container

School police officers in Texas are doling out more tickets to children as young as 6, who under past disciplinary practices would have been sent to the principal's office instead, according to a report by a Texas nonprofit.

"Disrupting class, using profanity, misbehaving on a school bus, student fights, and truancy once meant a trip to the principal's office. Today, such misbehavior results in a Class C misdemeanor ticket and a trip to court for thousands of Texas students and their families each year," says the Appleseed Texas report (PDF). It examined data from 22 of the state's largest school districts and eight municipal courts.

 

[Madeline]

What a dumbassed idea.

 

[Modbert]

What a waste of time and money in an already backlogged court system.

Here is something that stuck out to me about the article:

Black students and special education students were overrepresented among those ticketed

Really Texas?

 

[strollingbones]

isnt it amazing that kids have police records in texas due to this bs

 

[Article 15]

Let them secede.

 

[editec]

It's only Texastown, Bones.
Forget about it.​

 

[Douger]

It was done Nov 2, 2004.
I left.
Have fun.
You voted for it !

 

[Retread Ol' 37]

They should put those children in the chair. It would teach them little brats not to chew bubble gum!